finalityfi‧nal‧i‧ty /faɪˈnæləti/ AWL noun [uncountable] - She announced her impending departure with finality and sadness in her voice.
- Aquinas himself saw no finality in the solutions offered by either Aristotle or Ptolemy to the problems of planetary motion.
- It has to be unfair to put some one through the stress of a trial without finality.
- Several efforts to reach finality have failed and the situation remains unresolved.
- There's a dreadful finality about cutting down a tree.
- When an enactment is passed there is finality unless and until it is amended or repealed by Parliament.
► a sense/air of finality The word ‘retirement’ has a terrible air of finality about it. nounfinalsemi-finalfinalistsemi-finalistfinalefinalityfinalizationadjectivefinalverbfinalizeadverbfinally